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Re: Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor

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In the most amazing coincidence the first two pages I submitted had the same digest: 90c0568! One was the front page of a news site, the other was the management page of a company I follow. The mind boggles. Or, they have a bug.

edit: as did the 3rd. And 0 bytes returned so probably being blocked. On a black list already?

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor

#22

In the most amazing coincidence the first two pages I submitted had the same digest: 90c0568! One was the front page of a news site, the other was the management page of a company I follow. The mind boggles. Or, they have a bug. edit: as did the 3rd. And 0 bytes returned so probably being blocked. On a black list already?

Getting the same digest (90c0568) with no response code and a 0 byte response size so looks like something is broken (the crawler maybe).

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor

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post #22

In the most amazing coincidence the first two pages I submitted had the same digest: 90c0568! One was the front page of a news site, the other was the management page of a company I follow. The mind boggles. Or, they have a bug. edit: as did the 3rd. And 0 bytes returned so probably being blocked. On a black list already?

Getting the same digest (90c0568) with no response code and a 0 byte response size so looks like something is broken (the crawler maybe).

Problem fixed. All failed probes retried. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. Fixed.

What's your twitter id. You're trending on PH.

The product doesn't have a twitter as the name was occupied by others. :)

Personally I don't use twitter neither. Email me if you need to contact.

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your twitter id. You're trending on PH.

The product doesn't have a twitter as the name was occupied by others. :) Personally I don't use twitter neither. Email me if you need to contact.

If you had a personal twitter account, I could have granted you commenting access on Product Hunt. That's why I contacted you.

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor

#28
post #17

If you prefer privacy and control over your own tools, there are the FLOSS http://specto.sourceforge.net/ or the free(as in no cost)ware http://www.cmcode.co.uk/webmon/ for Windows

There is also the commercial, but very extensive Website-Watcher: http://aignes.com/

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Spider – Web page change monitor

#30
post #13

Does this site respect robots.txt? Does it render javascript content (so e.g. angular sites work)? Does it exclude or include comments... if I watch a blogpost with comments will every new comment cause an alert or only blogpost changes? Will I get a notification if the page briefly 500 errors when you hit it, or does it have to get a 200 before it reports a change? Will I get a notification if a page disappears enti…

Go write your own then. I find this a bizarre response to a simple and easy to understand tool.

I find it to be the kind of response to be welcomed (from a product developer/manager viewpoint)
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